A while ago I mentioned that I was planning to go to that Lagerfeld Exhibition in Essen. Well I went there, but haven't posted pictures yet. That's what I'm doing today. Good thing they let you take photographs there!

What was also interesting were the museum guide's explanations. For istance about the quotes from art history that Lagerfeld likes to use, like in this Edward Hopper inspired Fendi campaign (picture above).

But of course the best part were the haute couture dresses. These dresses have been sewn and intricately decorated by hand in France. There are only two copies of each dress: one taylor-made for the model who wears it in the show and one taylor-made for the customer who buys it. Of course this much exclusivity comes at a price: at least 50000€ per dress. Still it is not the couture, but ready-to-wear and cosmetics that spin money for the fashion houses. All this we were also told by the museum guide.

The dresses were exhibited in a Chanel-themed room. Besides the dresses there were miniature models of spectacular stage designs, the respective runway shows of which you could also watch the videos of. Also there were drawings of both Lagerfeld and his great predecessor Coco Chanel

Then there were more photographs that have been done in several different techniques for several different clients, some caricatures for a German newspaper, as well as books and posters, that have been published in Lagerfeld's publishing house.